Research Scientist and Intern positions - MERL Speech & Audio (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Jonathan Le Roux
[Apologies for cross-posting]
Dear all,
The MERL Speech & Audio team is looking for candidates for research scientist and intern positions. Applications are considered on a rolling basis.
1) Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist, Full-time
MERL's
Speech & Audio Group is seeking a researcher in the area of
artificial intelligence, with particular focus on and interest in audio,
speech, language, and/or multimodal processing. We are looking for
candidates with a strong background and experience in deep learning and
other advanced machine learning techniques.
Qualifications:
- A Ph.D. from an internationally recognized institution in electrical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science or equivalent.
- Thorough knowledge and expertise in modern speech technologies as well as relevant machine learning and optimization techniques.
- Strong publication record demonstrating innovative research achievements.
- Excellent programming skills, particularly in Python and deep learning toolkits.
- Strong teamwork, communication, writing, and presentation skills.
Contact: Jonathan Le Roux, ler...@merl.com
2) Research Internship, flexible start date & duration
Preference
for candidates that are senior Ph.D. students with experience in some
of the following: audio signal processing, microphone array processing,
probabilistic modeling, sequence to sequence models, and deep learning
techniques, in particular those involving minimal supervision (e.g.,
unsupervised, weakly-supervised, self-supervised, or few-shot learning).
Multiple positions are available throughout 2023 (Spring/Summer of
course, but also as early as January), with expected durations of 3-6
months and flexible start dates.
Contact: Gordon Wichern, wic...@merl.com
Please feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.
Best,
Jonathan